Curtain-bracket



M. J. MANAHAN.

CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30,1919.

Patented Jam 20, 1920.

' TED STATES MICHAEL J. IVIANAHAN, OF INDIANAPOLI S, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO ELMER I-I. BEMICK, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CURTAIN-BRACKET.

1,328,579. Specification of Application filed June 30,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL J. h/IANAI-IAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain- Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a shade roller and curtain rod bracket which may be attached to the window casing without involving complicated means for adjustment and without necessitating the use of fastening devices serving to mar 0r deface the finish of the wood work, and which at the same time shall have a suiiiciently firm engagement to support not only the shade roller but also the curtain pole with such hangings as may be imposed thereon, and wherein adjustment of the roller engaging means may be effected to suit the length of the latter regardless of the width of the window opening.

To this end the invention consists of a construction, combination and relation of parts hereinafter described, and a preferred embodiment of which is illustrated in the ac companying drawings, it being understood that changes in form, proportion and details may be resorted to, within the scope of the claims without departing from the principle involved.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the bracket applied in the operative position, to a window casing, the latter being shown in a horizontal section.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one member of the bracket.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of one of the clamping elements.

The improved bracket consists essentially of the supplementary cooperating bracket elements 10 and 11, the former of which preferably has a more or less extended front plate 12 from which may project an arm 13 having a terminal socket 14 for engagement with a curtain pole such as is indicated in dotted lines at 15 in Fig. 1. Several of these arms 13 may be provided, if desired, so that several poles, such as pole 15, may be supported. Each of said clamping elements, however, includes a bearing foot of which that indicated at 16 of the element 10 is adapted to be arranged in contact with the Letter Pat n Patented Jan. 20, 1920.

1919. Serial No. 307,552.

exterior edge surface of the window casing bar 17, supports 18 being arranged at the edge thereof. The corresponding opposed bearing foot 19 of the other element 11 is disposed substantially parallel with the foot 16 of the first named clamping element and also preferably carries ears 20 to lie in contact with the front surface of the window casing and in the plane of the face plate 12 of said clamping element 10.

These clamping elements are connected by adjusting means consisting for example, of a bolt 21 joined as shown to the element 10 and extending through an opening 22 in the element 11 where it is fitted with a thumb nut 23 by the adjustment of which the clamping elements may be drawn toward each other to insure a firm engagement thereof with the opposite or remote edges respectively of the casing member 17 as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

The connecting element represented by the bolt 21 carries the shade roller socket arm 24, preferably having an opening 25 which is engaged with the threads of the bolt so as to permit of adjustment of said arm to suit the length of the shade roller indicated in dotted lines at 26, and at its rear end said arm is provided with a foot 27 for contact with the front surface of the casing so as to hold the arm in a perpendicular position with reference to said surface.

Obviously the elements of the clamping may be relatively adjusted to engage casing members of difierent widths and may be secured in such relative position as to support the device operatively in relation to the casing, while the adjustment of the bracket arm relative to the clamping elements and the window opening provides for adapting the interval between the bracket members at opposite sides of the casing to the length of the shade roller and the width of the window opening, the bearing foot 27 holding the bracket arm effectively against depression or displacement by reason of the weight of the roller and the shade suspended thereon.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A shade roller bracket having relatively movable clamping elements provided with bearing feet for contact respectively with opposite edge surface of a window casing member, means for effecting the relative adjustment of said elements including a bolt joined to one of them and engaged with the other, and a nut threaded upon the bolt for contact with the second named element, and a shade roller socket arm threaded upon said bolt and having a bearing foot for contact with the front surface of the window casing member.

2. A shade roller bracket having relatively movable clamping elements provided With bearing feet for contact with opposite edge surfaces of a window casing member, one of said elements having' a face plate supporting a pole socket arm, and the other element having ears for contact with the front surface of the window casing member, adjjusting means connecting the said elements and consisting of a bolt and nut of which the former extends perpendicularly to the planes of said bearing feet, and a shade roller socket arm threaded upon the bolt between the planes of the bearing feet and provided at its rear end with a foot for contact with the front surface Off the casing member.

In ten iinony whereof I afiix my signature.

MICHAEL J. MANAHAN. 

